I'll third that opinion. I watched this a few weeks ago and
found it to be very entertaining, It's a treat for fans of
crime fiction because it sends up the coincidences and
cliches of the genre so well. I especially liked the Russian
Roulette scene. Somehow they never turn out like that when
James Ellroy does them.
>
>
>
>
> Very entertaining + clever movie, and what I liked
most about it was
> the way it made fun of all the cliches and
conventions found in most
> hardboiled PI novels.
>
> --Dave Z.
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Vorzimmer"
<jvorzimmer@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Finally got around to seeing Kiss Kiss Bang
Bang. An interesting
> homage to
> > film noir, pulp fiction and 50s PBOs. Starting
with the opening
> scene with
> > Robert Downey Jr standing at the edge of a
swimming pool in L.A.
> and
> > narrates the opening of the film in a style
that echoes Sunset
> Boulevard,
> > there are allusions and references to pulp
fiction and film noir
> through
> > out. The story itself is based on the Brett
Halliday book Bodies
> Are Where
> > You Find Them. The movie itself is divided in
chapters with names
> of Raymond
> > Chandler books. The reference to a paperback
series character
> called Johnny
> > Gossamer is based on Mike Shayne and Shell
Scott and, in fact, the
> > paperbacks they show are redesigned Mike Shayne
novels with the
> name Johnny
> > Gossamer on them instead.
> >
> > Very funny movie and well worth
renting.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
>
>
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